Crossword clues for ovulate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ovulate \ov"u*late\, v. i. (Physiol.) To produce ova and discharge them from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1888, back-formation from ovulation. Related: Ovulated; ovulating.
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) to produce eggs or ova
WordNet
v. produce and discharge eggs; "women ovulate about once every month"
Usage examples of "ovulate".
It turned out that females started to copulate long before they ovulated, continued long after they ovu-lated, and did not reach their peak sexual receptivity until the first half of pregnancy.
First she had to produce the eggs, and they had to be retrieved before she ovulated spontaneously.
Adult females of most mammal species use various means of conspicuously advertising the brief phase of their reproductive cycle when they are ovulating and can be fertilized.
Now consider the dilemma facing an ovulating cave-woman who has just been fertilized.
In any other mammal species, the male who did it would promptly go off in search of another ovulating female to fertilize.
To us humans, the swollen derrieres of ovulating chimps look like those of baboons.
Lately, they did it in bed, every forty eight hours on the days when she was ovulating and most likely to conceive.
Lately, they did it in bed, every forty eight hours on the days when she was ovulating and most likely to conceive.
Muffy could not help but think of mice, whose females become fertile--they ovulate and become receptive to the male--when exposed to the pheromonic scent of male urine.
To us humans, the swollen derrieres of ovulating chimps look like those of baboons.
She'd stopped ovulating after she donated the eggs--that's almost a year ago.
At any rate, when we do it right, the ovaries are constantly ovulating mature oocytes.
When the pure creatures mate, the female ovulates on demand and the fetus develops within a matter of minutes or hours, it isn’t clear to me—but whatever the case, it puts tremendous stress upon the mother.
When the pure creatures mate, the female ovulates on demand and the fetus develops within a matter of minutes or hours, it isn't clear to me-but whatever the case, it puts tremendous stress upon the mother.
I can even swallow that bit about only the egg knowing the right sperm, and that a Silistran woman ovulates only upon the presentation of desirable sperm, and then only two or three times in her life.